As It Happens: Thursday Edition

Part One

Pakistan drone strike
For years, they worked to bring Warren Weinstein home. Now, family and friends are shattered to hear that the aid worker -- kidnapped in Pakistan in 2011 -- was killed in a disastrous U.S. drone strike.

Malta's Foreign Minister on Mediterranean migrants
"The tomb of the unknown migrant." That's how Malta's Foreign Minister describes the Mediterranean Sea -- from his tiny island state on the frontlines of a growing tragedy. 

Subway rescue
When a man in a motorized wheelchair falls onto the subway tracks in Washington, D.C., a heroic visiting Canadian neurologist clambers to his rescue. 

Part Two

IRA bomber play
A new play explores the real-life friendship that's developed between a British woman and the IRA bomber who killed her father in 1984.

Lois Lilienstein obit
Sharon and Bram talk about their late partner Lois -- whose irrepressible joy made the trio beloved children's entertainers in Canada and around the world. 

Part Three

China embryo
When Chinese scientists successfully alter the DNA in human embryos, the rest of the scientific world is horrified. 

Oklahoma earthquakes
After the number of earthquakes rises exponentially over just a few years, Oklahoma's state government finally, officially blames the oil and gas industry. 

Winnipeg cigarette recycler
A Winnipeg man explains how one bad habit -- smoking -- has led to another -- sending tens of thousands of butts to a Canadian recycling company.